Willem Dafoe – Spiderman, Mr.
Bean’s Holiday, Manderlay, Paris je t’aime, American Dreamz, The Aviator, Once Upon a Time in Mexico,
eXistenZ, Lulu on the Bridge, Wild at Heart, Cry Baby, Born on the Fourth of
July, Mississippi Is Burning, The Last Temptation of Christ, Dear America,
Platoon, Streets of Fire

Seen: Once before.
Now 8 August 2015 with Hal and YW in our read-book-see-film group

The desert is the
most interesting character in the film. It’s beautiful. Mysterious.
Magnificent. Eternal. Ever-changing. Deadly.

The rest of the
film? I can’t quite get involved in the drama. Much is made of the passion of
Katherine and Almasy. Too much. It was the least interesting part of the book.

Not only are the
complex and fascinating relationships and backgrounds of Hana, Kip and
Caravaggio minimised but also changed for no discernible reason.

It does become
gripping towards the end but the all-important connection to the bombs on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the last few pages of the book is eliminated from the
film, severely dulling the political power of the story. A pity.